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14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Witch and the Chri... · 1 reply · +2 points

Actually, I kinda favor Druids with Pumpkins. (Uh-oh, a schism...)

Seriously, I don't expect this driver to lose his job over this incident if it's the first time he's be caught. There's no trespass or vandalism involved. But in this economy a warning of that penalty for repeat offenses might get his attention.

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Child Sacrifice in Uga... · 0 replies · +1 points

We know the witch-hunters in Africa are getting support from some Christians in the US. It would be no surprise if "anti-occult" tropes such as you suspect were carried over. Stay suspicious.

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - A Few Quick Notes · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm amazed at the implication of the Manhattan Declaration that Christian voices have heretofore not been articulate about abortion, euthanasia, embryonic research, same-sex marriage and conscience clauses. Where have they been?

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Dangers of Praisin... · 0 replies · +1 points

You're right. Commie hunts have no relevance now. The Soviet Bloc is no longer threatening our lives -- in fact no longer exists. Now it's Al Qa'ida, but the right can't do much guilt by association with them.

BD

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Dangers of Praisin... · 2 replies · +1 points

Man, you could use the word "witch-hunt" allegorically and reportorially on this one!

How long ago was Hay a Communist? My earliest political reflexes from the 1950s compel this query.

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - RIP Mary Daly and othe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Riverbend, the least you can say about that literary genre is that it forces questions upon the genre community.. How are gender issues treated in the science fiction you prefer to read? If you are a science fiction writer, how do you deal with gender issues? Have you frozen the slice of the 20th Century you adopted as normative and projected it as the future? Or are you really engaged in honest speculation?

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - RIP Mary Daly and othe... · 0 replies · +2 points

I am definitely male, Clare. Not all men are wedded to patriarchy.

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - RIP Mary Daly and othe... · 0 replies · +2 points

Mary Daly was not only essential to Paganism, but its flavor UU Paganism might not exist without her.

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Bloody Death-Pit or An... · 0 replies · +3 points

MCH, the turkey in your sandwich is just as innocent as the chicken sacrificed by a Santero. You're trying to have it both ways, by selectively moralizing one kind of animal killing while refusing to moralize another. That's the core of moral hypocricy.

Pagans who would never sacrifice an animal themselves will defend the right of those who do, because they are consistent in their moralizations, something you will never understand as long as you keep this hypocritical barrier in your mind between categories of animal slaughter.

Baruch Dreamstalker

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Bloody Death-Pit or An... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well said, Cat.

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